Page 10 - (DK) Smithsinian - Military History: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Objects of Warfare

1815–1914 1914–1945
INDUSTRY THE
AND IMPERIALISM WORLD WARS

Introduction 218 Introduction 276 Capital Ships 328
Key Development: Key Development: Super Dreadnought Battleship:
The Beginnings of Modern Warfare 220 Trench Warfare 278 USS Texas 330
Flintlock Muskets and Uniforms and Equipment 280 Cruisers 334
Breech-loading Rifles 222
Heavy Machine-guns 282 Destroyers and Escorts 336
Flintlock and Percussion Pistols, Light Machine-guns and Submarines 338
and Early Revolvers 224
Machine-pistols 284
Metallic-cartridge Pistols 226 An Amphibious Invasion Force:
World War I Defenses: The Normandy Landings 340
Early Repeating Rifles 228 Bayernwald Trench 286
Key Development:
Uniforms and Insignia Field Guns, Siege Guns, Air and Sea Battles 342
of 19th-century Armies 230 and Howitzers 288
Aircraft Carriers 344
Early Industrial Warfare: Trench-fighting Weapons 290
The Battle of Antietam 232 Carrier and Maritime
Trench Warfare: Strike Aircraft 346
American Civil War Uniforms 234 The Battle of Arras 292
Air–Sea Combat:
Infantry and Cavalry Swords Tanks and Armored Vehicles 294 The Battle of Leyte Gulf 348
and Bayonets 236
World War I Tank: Mark V Tank 296 Key Development:
Muzzle-loading Artillery 238 Tanks and Infantry in World War II 350
Communications and
Key Development: The Wars of Empires 240 Equipment of World War I 298 Allied Armored
Fighting Vehicles 352
Manually loaded Repeater Rifles 242 Key Development:
The Growth of Air Power 300 Axis Armored
Machine-guns 244
Reconnaissance and Fighting Vehicles 354
A New Kind of Firepower: Gatling Gun 246
Fighter Aircraft 302 World War II Armored Vehicle:
Breech-loading Artillery 248 T-34 Tank 356
Bomber Aircraft 304
Imperial Firepower: Fighter and Fighter-bomber Anti-tank Weapons 358
The Battle of Omdurman 250
Aircraft 1939–1942 306 Trucks, Half-tracks,
Clothing and Weapons and Light Vehicles 360
of Africa and Oceania 252 Fighter and Fighter-bomber
Aircraft 1943–1945 308 Uniforms and Equipment 362
Self-loading Pistols 254
Bomber Aircraft 1939–1942 310 Self-loading Rifles 364
Guerilla Warfare: Second Boer War 256
Bomber Aircraft 1943–1945 312 Personal Weapons 366
Military Medals Before 1914 258
World War II Long-range Heavy Bomber: Water- and Air-cooled
Key Development: Steam, Ironclads, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress 314 Machine-guns 368
and the First Battleships 260
Bombs and Missiles Artillery 370
Battleships 262 of World War II 318
Airborne Assault:
The Age of Steam and Big Gun: Transport, Reconnaissance, Operation Market Garden 372
The Battle of Tsushima 264 and Liaison Aircraft 320
Airborne Forces Uniforms
Japanese Pre-Dreadnought Battleship: Communications and Codebreaking and Kit 374
Mikasa 266 Equipment of World War II 322
Resistance Weapons
Early Cruisers 270 World War Era Medals 324 and Equipment 376
Torpedo boats, Destroyers, Key Development: Nuclear Warfare:
and Submarines 272 Battles at Sea in the World Wars 326 The Bombing of Hiroshima 378